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Guillaume

Apollinaire


La Femme assise

1920174 x 221 mm

FIRST EDITION
COPY ON LAFUMA LAID PAPER

450 €

1 in stock

20th Century Literature Bindings of the period Copy on large paper Top draw only First Edition

Description

FIRST EDITION This posthumous roman à clef set in the artistic world of Montmartre brings together two drafts of novels that Apollinaire had been working on in September 1918, Irène de Montparnasse and The Mormon and the Danite.

ONE OF THE 128 FIRST IN-QUARTO PRINTED EXAMPLES on Lafuma Navarre de Voiron laid paper (one of 100 nominative copies reserved for bibliophiles of the nouvelle revue française, this one No. XVIII printed especially for Mr. Tiemens).

There follow 1040 copies in-16° double-crown on Lafuma de Voiron wove paper.

A fine copy with a Elegant Art Deco binding with gilt paper endpapers and paste-downs.

Paris,N.R.F,1920.In-4, Bound,174 x 221 mm,268 pp, [1] bl. f., [1] f.

Red half-chagrin, spine ribbed and filleted across the boards, gilt title decorated with square irons, gilt paper endpapers and countersleeves, gilt head, bookmark. Cover and spine preserved. Binding slightly rubbed.

Bio

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Guillaume Apollinaire

William Albert Vladimir Alexander Apollinaire of Kostrowitzky

(born Polish subject of the Russian Empire, August 26, 1880 in Rome and died in Paris on November 9, 1918).

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